{"id":3209,"date":"2016-10-11T11:48:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T11:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:3000\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2016-10-11T11:48:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T11:48:42","slug":"loc-boosts-london-team-sets-growth-aspirations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abl-group.com\/abl\/all-media\/news\/loc-boosts-london-team-sets-growth-aspirations\/","title":{"rendered":"LOC boosts London team and sets out growth aspirations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;\">LOC has moved one of its top performers from Asia back to London to focus on growing the company\u2019s shipping services in London and around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;\">Nick Haslam, Group Director of Shipping Services, joined LOC almost 20 years ago and has been based in Singapore for the last nine years. He has returned to London to focus on business development and intends to further grow the expert team over the next 12-18 months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;\">A Class 1 Master Mariner, he has more than 20 years of sea going experience on bulk carriers, LPG, container vessels, reefers, salvage tugs and AHTS, including command. Nick is also a Special Casualty Representative (Member of the Lloyds\u2019 SCR Panel) and was one of the initial people invited to join the panel by the SCOPIC committee more than 16 years ago. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;\">He has been involved in numerous high profile salvage and wreck removal operations around the world and is one of the most active SCRs on the panel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;\">\u201cI am delighted to be back in London<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;\">\u201d, says Nick Haslam.\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;\">\u201cLOC has offices all around the world, and as Group Director I have leadership of the shipping business line to ensure growth and excellence within the sector, but I am glad to be able to focus on London as the leading global location for this industry<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;\">\u201c<em><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;\">LOC has a long respected history and despite the growth in maritime services elsewhere, nothing touches London as the home of shipping services. The P&amp;I Clubs still have their headquarters here as does the Lloyds\u2019 market, so do the maritime lawyers and the High Court and the arbitration system go back hundreds of years. The system is utterly tried, tested and trusted, there\u2019s nowhere else like it for specialist knowledge and expertise,<\/span><\/em>\u201d he concludes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;\">LOC\u2019s Singapore office has grown four fold over the last nine years, and is now a busy hub covering much of Asia. Nick notes that the last year has been particularly busy for casualty work across the region, with a high profile wreck removal case dominating much of the work. He adds that the team is looking to grow still further and has a considerable amount of work in the pipeline despite the global economic downturn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;\">The well-established London team will be providing services ranging from problem analysis, cargo damage and liquefaction to cargo claims and disputes, condition surveys, fixed object damage, hull and machinery, marine casualties, personal injury, pollution, to ports, risks and safety, salvage, technical support, voyage and wreck removal.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOC has moved one of its top performers from Asia back to London to focus on growing the company\u2019s shipping services in London and around the world. Nick Haslam, Group Director of Shipping Services, joined LOC almost 20 years ago and has been based in Singapore for the last nine years. 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